MICHAEL J. LOVE

Michael J. Love, M.F.A. is an interdisciplinary tap dance artist and scholar whose embodied research intermixes Black, queer feminist theories and aesthetics with a rigorous practice to critically engage Black cultural pasts and “rhythm dream” of futurity. Love is Assistant Professor of Dance at Ursinus College. He is also the 2025-26 Baker Foundation Artist-in-Residence at Muhlenberg College. Most recently, Love was a 2021-23 Princeton University Arts Fellow and Lecturer in the Program in Dance at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts. In Texas, Love’s work has been supported and presented by Fusebox Festival and ARCOS Dance and recognized by the Austin Critics' Table. His scholarship has been published in b2o: an online journal and Choreographic Practices. Love was featured in filmmaker Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s "The Trace Of An Implied Presence" at The Shed in New York and has also enjoyed numerous collaborations with quartet Sō Percussion, rhythmanalyst DeForrest Brown Jr., and anti-disciplinary artist Aryel René Jackson. Love’s credits include the Broadway laboratory for choreographer Savion Glover and director George C. Wolfe’s "Shuffle Along…," and roles in works by choreographer Baakari Wilder. Love is a native of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.